Discover the Power of Regional Art: Pennsylvania Impressionists at Freeman’s

Freeman’s remains the market leader for Pennsylvania Impressionists and the New Hope School, a position shaped by decades of benchmark results and deep scholarship in the region’s most celebrated artists.

This season, that legacy is exemplified by a rare and extraordinary highlight: Morgan Colt’s The Canal Boat (c. 1915–25). The largest known oil by the artist and among his most ambitious compositions ever to reach the market, the painting captures a now-vanished moment along the Delaware River with remarkable immediacy—its shimmering brushwork, sunlit palette, and tender attention to everyday river life marking it as a singular achievement within Colt’s limited surviving oeuvre.

 Lot 118 | Morgan Colt, The Canal Boat, c. 1915-25
 Estimate $60,000 - 100,00

As the December 9 auction approaches, The Canal Boat stands as a major rediscovery and an important testament to Colt’s place among the first generation of New Hope painters, alongside Redfield, Garber, Rosen, Bredin, and Spencer. Its appearance at Freeman’s underscores why collectors consistently turn to us for the finest Pennsylvania Impressionist works, and why we remain the premier destination for this storied American school.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Lot 138 | Robert Spencer (American, 1879-1931) Peninsula | Estimate $20,000 - 30,000

Lot 116 | Fern Isabel Coppedge, Pigeon Cove, c. 1920s | Estimate $50,000 – 80,000

Lot 110 | John Fulton Folinsbee, Shad Fishermen No. 2, c. 1938 | Estimate $50,000 – 80,000

LEFT TO RIGHT: Lot 104 | Daniel Garber, Sumac Lane, 1928 |
 Estimate $120,000 - 180,000

Lot 125 | Edward Willis Redfield (American, 1869-1965) Centre Bridge  Estimate $100,000 - 150,000

Lot 132 | Mary Elizabeth Price (American, 1877-1965) Rhododendron Estimate $40,000 - 60,000